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Afghanistan
Children killed in Nato attack: Afghan officials
2012-10-16
[Dawn] Afghan officials said Monday that a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
air strike killed three children while it was targeting Taliban cut-throats planting mines on a road in southern Afghanistan.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) confirmed an air strike in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province's Nawa district on Sunday, saying that three cut-throats died and it was investigating reports that children were also killed.

"Two Taliban mine-planters were identified and targeted by Isaf from the air and killed," district police chief Ahmad Shah Khan told AFP.

"Three children, two boys and a girl, who were nearby collecting firewood were also killed," Khan added.

Farid Ahmad Farhang, a front man for Helmand police, confirmed the incident and said the raid killed two cut-throats and three children.
Posted by:Fred

#1  So were the children killed by the NATO attack or by the secondary explosion of the Taliban IED?
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-10-16 12:06  

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